Thank you for the caution;

I use daveb's method to clear /.sugar in all uploads of sugar

rm -rf ~/.sugar
su -
{password}
shutdown -h now

This procedure has to be used on all dd copies of USB
If this is not done, there is a network collision between 2 clones on same network

The generic passwords used to log in to user: sugar are:
(used in all of my  VM Appliances also)

sugar=sugaruser
root=sugarroot

They are used in the USB4C.img I am uploading to sunjammer (as an experiment)
(in a compressed format)


Note: I have not seen any failures to USB sticks from using dd.
I just did a test of dd writewith a 4GB image made from a Sandisk Cruzer micro 4GB to a 16 PNY Mini-Attache' stick with no problems. It booted fine. (The PNY is a much cheaper and slower stick so I thought this was a good test)


Tom Gilliard
satellit

Luke Faraone wrote:
On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 03:03, Sascha Silbe <
sascha-ml-ui-sugar-i...@silbe.org> wrote:

[copying USB stick via dd]

Sucessfully copies the USB stick! this is an exact copy and boot and  runs
well.

Just a word of caution: Because it's an exact copy, it will duplicate your
"identity" as well if you've ever logged in to Sugar and entered your name
before on the source USB stick. You will need to remove some files in
~/.sugar in order for collaboration to work properly in that case.


Also, per http://wiki.laptop.org/go/How_to_Damage_a_FLASH_Storage_Device ,
you may get better milage out of your USB disk if you don't use DD, but
rather just copy over the files.

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